Author Topic: The badly-named businesses thread (Read 114462 times)

Littlesox · « **Reply #125 on:** 04 May, 2013, 12:18:29 pm »

Next time I'm out that way, I'll take a photo to prove it, but over by Oswestry lies the village of Knockin.

Guess what the village store is called ?

Yes, The Knockin Shop.

jogler · « **Reply #126 on:** 04 May, 2013, 12:24:28 pm »

Quote from: Littlesox on 04 May, 2013, 12:18:29 pm

Yes, The Knockin Shop.

I have been in there with Kim otp.

It's wellknown amongst the audax riders.

ETA

IIRC Kim has a photo of our bikes parked outside the Knockin Shop

rogerzilla · « **Reply #127 on:** 04 May, 2013, 12:28:37 pm »

Googling suggests that everyone in the world has taken a photo of it.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=knockin+shop&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=k_CEUda4F4PePc_ggdgK&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=460#imgrc=BOAw6uRSE9fCjM%3A%3BNvPYKh9QghdynM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fs0.geograph.org.uk%252Fgeophotos%252F02%252F05%252F76%252F2057685_bc4c553a.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.geograph.org.uk%252Fphoto%252F2057685%3B640%3B480

Littlesox · « **Reply #128 on:** 08 May, 2013, 10:53:03 pm »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 04 May, 2013, 12:28:37 pm

Googling suggests that everyone in the world has taken a photo of it.

Blimey, you are not kidding.

More photos than Pippa's rear-end !

clarion · « **Reply #129 on:** 12 May, 2013, 10:47:06 am »

Badly named product, at least:

Arch · « **Reply #130 on:** 12 May, 2013, 04:40:57 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 12 May, 2013, 10:47:06 am

Badly named product, at least:

Depends what sort of device you use them in...

Arch · « **Reply #131 on:** 12 May, 2013, 04:46:19 pm »

From Twitter, not so much a bad business name, as an unfortunate strapline.

https://twitter.com/cox_tom/status/333231292302884864/photo/1

rogerzilla · « **Reply #132 on:** 12 May, 2013, 06:12:22 pm »

Quote from: Arch on 12 May, 2013, 04:46:19 pm

From Twitter, not so much a bad business name, as an unfortunate strapline.

https://twitter.com/cox_tom/status/333231292302884864/photo/1

Given the RSPCA's penchant for euthanising anything that sneezes, not too far from the truth.

Salvatore · « **Reply #133 on:** 13 May, 2013, 07:26:43 am »

Another unfortunately-named product. I saw one in the wild on the 1991 PBP. And heard it - it squeaked horribly at the pivots.

Jaded · « **Reply #134 on:** 13 May, 2013, 09:25:56 am »

Quote from: Arch on 12 May, 2013, 04:46:19 pm

From Twitter, not so much a bad business name, as an unfortunate strapline.

https://twitter.com/cox_tom/status/333231292302884864/photo/1

For a brief moment I though the next door shop was selling used lambs.

Woofage · « **Reply #135 on:** 13 May, 2013, 10:42:38 pm »

Not a business but a product:

clarion · « **Reply #136 on:** 21 May, 2013, 11:28:05 am »

So, again, not a business, but a series of products.

Did no one ever say it out loud before publishing?

Vince · « **Reply #137 on:** 21 May, 2013, 07:48:26 pm »

May be they had never heard of inter-galactic by-passes

clarion · « **Reply #138 on:** 21 May, 2013, 11:30:10 pm »

Sadly, there didn't seem to be one on poetry.

Vince · « **Reply #139 on:** 03 June, 2013, 02:16:37 pm »

I can't stop safely anywhere to take a photo of this, so will have to link to their logo.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #140 on:** 03 June, 2013, 06:36:53 pm »

My new team uses a lot of this:

http://www.softwareag.com/corporate/products/aris_platform/default.asp

Presumably they never consulted any cockneys before choosing the name.

clarion · « **Reply #141 on:** 03 June, 2013, 07:03:22 pm »

Closer to home, there was the Sachs Aris groupset, which, missing a trick, didn't include a saddle.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #142 on:** 03 June, 2013, 09:41:59 pm »

An organisation, to which I am close, created a mascot for a financial education programme called "Ned". I asked, apropos of nothing, if they intended to use him in Scotland.

Ned is tragically no more.

Anyway, those forriners are immune from such concerns:
http://www.neduet.edu.pk/

Andrij · « **Reply #143 on:** 04 June, 2013, 09:18:01 am »

Our CEO recently sent out an email about our company's NEDs. He was, of course, referring to Non-Executive Directors, but after spelling it out at the start, all other references were 'NED'. Oh, how I chuckled. The CEO is an easy-going, approachable guy, but I decided that I wouldn't mention the other use of 'ned' to him.

Oaky · « **Reply #144 on:** 06 June, 2013, 12:33:44 pm »

DONG energy

MattH · « **Reply #145 on:** 06 June, 2013, 12:37:16 pm »

Mustafa Koc is the chairman of Koc Holding.

tiermat · « **Reply #146 on:** 06 June, 2013, 12:38:23 pm »

Quote from: MattH on 06 June, 2013, 12:37:16 pm

Mustafa Koc is the chairman of Koc Holding.

You just couldn't make it up, could you?

Vince · « **Reply #147 on:** 06 June, 2013, 02:16:37 pm »

I buy spares for my boat from Kok watersport

rogerzilla · « **Reply #148 on:** 06 June, 2013, 07:59:06 pm »

Say it out loud.

http://www.nnfestival.org.uk/

I assume the festival in Norwich has been cancelled, then.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #149 on:** 21 June, 2013, 11:11:33 am »

Not so much badly named as an unfortunate inter-lingual coincidence: blindman.pl
He's a photographer!